Mohammed Amin has won One World Media’s prestigious Journalist of the Year award for his reporting as a freelance correspondent for Middle East Eye from Sudan.
Amin was unable to attend the London awards ceremony in person on Wednesday night after the Home Office refused to grant him a visa to travel to the UK.
Accepting the award by video, the Sudanese journalist said: “One of the discriminatory things the Home Office told me was that I might not leave the country, meaning that I might seek asylum here.
“I would like to say here that the Sudanese are not a heavy burden in this world. We are equal partners in humanity.”
Amin pointed to the determination of the Sudanese, including how the village of al-Tekeina, from where he reported, defended itself against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary, which has been widely accused of genocide.
